“[The Affordable Care Act] said to women of America ‘You can’t be charged more just because you’re a woman,’” the New York Senator said. “Imagine becoming pregnant and having your insurer drop your coverage because you are no longer economic or you cost too much money. Imagine being a cancer survivor and having your coverage dropped because you survived cancer and you cost too much money.”

Under the Affordable Care Act, contraception, mammograms and preventive care services were affordable and accessible. If the ACA is repealed, Gillibrand said, “families are left without the basic care they need to survive.”

Gillibrand ended her speech on a powerful note, addressing her fellow senators directly: “So if you love women, and you love your mothers and daughters and wives, please do not unwind the Affordable Care Act. We need women’s health protected.”

“Because health care shouldn’t be just for the healthy and wealthy ― I vote no,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren also opposed the repeal, shouting over the gavel: “On behalf of the Republicans and Democrats who worked for a decade in Massachusetts to bring health care to 97 percent of our people, I vote no.”

Kirsten Gillibrand: If You Love Women, Do Not Unwind The Affordable Care Act

18 Distressing Things The GOP Has Said About Planned Parenthood

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When Huckabee compared Planned Parenthood to a heroin dealer.

&ldquo;Planned Parenthood isn&rsquo;t purely a &lsquo;healthcare provider&rsquo; any more than a heroin dealer is a community pharmacist."<br>--&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/30/exclusive-mike-huckabee-washingtons-priorities-pathetic-funding-planned-parenthood-veterans-die-waiting-healthcare/">Mike Huckabee</a>